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JHSRP - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
25 September 1998
Would anyone be interested in contributing to the ‘Questions &
answers’ section of the Journal of Health Services Research and
Policy? JHSRP is edited by Nick Black at the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, London UK, and Nicholas Mays, at the King’s
Fund, London UK.
The aim of the Q&A section is for you to identify and try to answer
puzzles, especially methodological ones, in health services research
and policy. Readers are invited both to submit questions which they
think will be of general interest or which are particularly topical,
and to offer answers to questions.
Questions can be ones which you feel have not been satisfactorily
answered in the existing literature, ones which relate to
‘self-evident’ definitions which need to be made problematic, or
paradoxes. Questions for which we are seeking answers for the next
issue of the journal appear below:
1.· What is ‘human factors engineering’ (cognitive ergonomics) and why
is it essential to the design of software, hardware and people-ware
interventions in medicine? ·
2. Has involving consumers (patients) in research made any difference
to what is researched and how? ·
3. Does the environment of a hospital affect recovery?
Answers should be under 250 words and written with wit and elegance.
If more than one, similar, answer is provided, the criterion of choice
for publication will be wit and originality.
All contributions submitted for publication should be faxed (or
posted) to the Q&A Section Editor: Gillian Parker, Nuffield Community
Care Studies Unit, University of Leicester, 22-28 Princess Road West,
Leicester LE1 6TP, UK. Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5423.
Please see website on: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/jhsrp/default.htm
for ‘instructions to authors’ and order form.
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